This is an up-close experience of Alaska's grandeur for people who love nature. Award-winning trips (National Geographic Traveler 'Best of the World'), conducted to ecotourism principles. On your small ship cruise, you will explore aboard an 88-foot classic wooden tug boat redesigned for the ultimate in guest comfort. Travel with just 12 guests, guided by the expert crew naturalist, and guides. Cruise through Fredrick sound, a hot spot for feeding humpback whales. Travel through sheer-sided glacial fjords to the foot of tidal glaciers where you will witness natural calving events as building size chunks of ice fall from the glaciers face into the ocean below. Gain special access to a remote and protected Salmon Creek & Pack Creek, where brown bears gather to feed.